Language Girl #studysky #langsky

Literally a mother's daughter that's so sweet 😭😂

@shamsibloom.bsky.social fellow native American? Purr 🪶

The words "crevasse" and "crevice" both come from the Old French verb crever, which means "to break or burst". The main difference between the two words is the size of the opening they refer to.

But they are similar because of the etymological origin.

Crevice = smol crack
Crevasse = massive crack

Thank you so much!! I have indeed and it's paying off 🥹

** the basics on phonetics were touched on very briefly in a very accessible and easy to understand way, it was more of a superficial topic rather than an actual class of phonetics, which wouldn't make sense for someone just starting out.

Regarding phonetics and phonology, we went over some basics such as a tones and word stress, in order to help her achive a natural rythm and cadence when speaking this new lanuage, as well as helping her practice hearing things the way she would in real life scenarios.
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I will continue to plan an A1-A2 course for her, with focus on daily social interactions, practicing listening comprehension as well as working on speaking and of course using exercises to re-train the vocal muscles in order to achive correct tongue positioning in the mouth and thus good phonology.

BUT since I only have 3 finals to sit now, I thought wth? Why not?! So I said yes - and today, we had our first class!!

It went so well. She told me she needed to start from the beggining so we did, starting with some basic grettings and manners, this is very important since she's in Ireland now.

She texted me saying she wanted to have lessons with me again because she liked the way I taught 😭

It had been a while since the last time I did tutoring because I have been focusing on uni for the past 2 years.

#studysky #langsky #tutoring #languagelearning #privatetutoring

📖private tutoring update

Remember this girl from last week? She had previously been a student of mine but she had to quit because of work-related reasons.

#studysky #langsky #studymotivation

💌uni updates:

GPA: my GPA was soo good throughout the year that I didn't have to sit any finals besides 3 mandatory ones, so out of 10 subjects, only 3 finals yayyy!!

FB: today I was given feedback on one of the last exams I sat, I passed with 90%!!

Thank you!! 🫶🏼

+ I now only have to sit 3/10(!!) finals!! All of which are actually mandatory and I can't "GPA my way through it" and end the year without a final.

This just goes to show hard work pays off, I'm so tired now, but my holidays will be nice and long!!

#studysky #motivation #langsky #translation

+ hand them in on time.

On the other hand, I still have to hand in my final assignment for Reverse Translation which is due tomorrow - and therefore, tomorrow's problem 😋

However, besides being so busy and tired, I do actually have good news! Due to my good grades throughout the year, +

💌 #Study update:

Okay guys, first time writing a post in like 2 days maybe?

I was less active since I was SUPER busy with uni - as you know I sat my oral Lit. exam on Tuesday and then I had until today to hand in two more exams from Public Translation - thankfully I managed to finish them and +

yes I was wondering if there was like a "one word" translation like we were looking for "hygge" - I think ideas can be explained and translated to another language but I think that's different from having a direct, equivalent, single-word translation which would need a linguistic connection "bts"

decoracion de sobremesa is definitely very different to sobremesa on its own but okay lol thanks for your imput 👌

Well, I am tellig you I am reffering the OTHER meaning of 'sobremesa', specifically the one I described to you before - and I was wondering how you would translate that? what English word do you think would fit the description best? And again, no, I am not talking about a centre piece..... 🤣🤣

'centre-piece' is 'centro de mesa'

No, it's the act of having a conversation on the table for a long period of time after a meal over, it's a very common thing in South American and maybe the rest of LATAM but idk that tbh

have the IKEA furtniture names already tried to lured you into learning Swedish?

RIGHT??? come on emma, join the dark side, enter the rabbit hole

What word would you use in english to translate the word "sobremesa" from Spanish?

LMFAOOOO

- on Emmas's skeet to the Ephesians:

on Paul's letter to the Ephesians. In Latin, the proverb is “Noli equi dentes inspicere donati” (never inspect the teeth of a given horse).

So, basically, latin - ahh I love languages and playing guess and learning #langsky

from a very superficial research i quickly did since you showed interested in languages hehe, I found that obvs both idioms mean the same in both languages - and apparently the orgin is this:

The phrase, “don't look a gift horse in the mouth” originates in St. Jerome's commentary (400 AD) ..+

now I don't know!! because these languages are not even linguistically related, so unless it comes from latin, i'd be too stunned to speak -- i'll have to research it later!! 🤩🤓😍

Esta bien, voy tranquila - tengo las correcciones conmigo y me falta poco para terminarla, por suerte 🤞

omg so it exists in English how cool! It's basically a literal translation -- SO cool 😍

Really?? Tell us more. I feel like it's a land far far away now from me 😅 it feels so foreign